Qualcomm’s AI Wearables Bet Puts Smartphones on the Clock as OpenAI, Meta Circle
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon is betting the chipmaker’s future on AI wearables, saying on Fortune’s Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast that the company is collaborating with OpenAI, Meta Platforms, and, in his words, “pretty much all” of the top AI names to develop personal devices that could move some computing workloads off smartphones. Benzinga covered the remarks, as Qualcomm pushes further into the scramble to provide chips powering AI agent-driven hardware—devices designed to handle user tasks via advanced software. Timing’s key here. Qualcomm, still seen by most investors as a phone processor and wireless chip play, is feeling the pressure as smartphones reach maturity. Wall Street wants to see a convincing move into AI hardware. Qualcomm shares jumped about